... as Drama The importance of oral traditions in written texts Literary history across all traditions/ages of literature Current trends in narrative techniques Literary texts and ideologies Literary criticism and its theories Socio-historical and religious importance of literary texts to contemporary societies. Contemporary writers; their form, style and techniques Intertextual and cross-textual references in literary texts. The few points above constitute a handful of research areas ... in literature. Although, these areas are not limited, research may be dynamic as with language. An exam...

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Literary devices in Wuthering Heights The novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte relates a story of passionate love which ends in despair and melancholy for both Catherine and Heathcliff who are the main characters of the novel. The author employs various techniques to make the story more interesting and to captivate the readers. Throughout the novel, there is an underlying eerie and dark tone ... has used vocabulary, understatements, and ironical comments to convey the grave tone of the event and this enables the reader to understand the meaning better. Emily Bronte employs a number of ...

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... that society's influential pressures compel individuals to conform, forcing them to supress their individuality is explored by Ken Kesey, in the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Through specific literary techniques including, characterisation, symbols and setting, the idea that an individual cannot express themselves freely in society without feeling a sense of isolation is explored. Kesey, is then able to depict to ... idea that society's influential pressures compel individuals to conform forcing them to suppress their individuality is explored by Ken Kesey in the novel One Flew...

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... Real Cool" Gwendolyn Brooks uses literary techniques such as dialect, ironic point of view, and syntax to accentuate the theme and persona in "We Real Cool." The speaker, or persona, in "We Real Cool" has a black dialect. ... is understood. When the last line "Die soon" stands alone, the reader senses that each pool player is alone once he or she dies. Because of Gwendolyn's use of these literary techniques, readers understand the theme of her poem: Even though following the carefree crowd appears seems to be the right path, it usually ends in a meaningless and lonely life....

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Good commentary must include: - Clear organization - Understanding of literary techniques - Alliteration - Metaphors - she is snow - Onomatopoeia - words that are spelt in a similar way to the sound - Allegory - narrative using symbols - Euphemism - cold slumber (death) - Similes - white as snow ( ... Motif - an idea or a theme that recurs throughout a play, story or poem - Setting - Paradox - idea that cannot be understood but has a deeper meaning alienation Ability to explain author's use of techniques to affect reader. (Balance sharp-edged critical analysis with personal impression.) Prepar...

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... that Morrison did an accurate and understandable job demonstrating the aspect of African Americans dealing with the cultural challenges and frustrations as an actuality. Throughout the novel, Morrison uses several literary techniques to truly influence and connect the reader to the circumstances. Symbols are one major aspect that she uses to engage the reader as well as provide a constant meaning throughout ... life of Pecola gives us great understanding on different perspectives of her, and the different aspects of voice grant the situations Pecola encounters with different meanings. An ...

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... as absurd, vicious, or inhumane. Jonathan Swift's " A Modest Proposal" and Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" are examples of satires written with literary irony and parody. "A Modest Proposal" is an outrageous proposal to solve the extreme famine and human misery inflicted on the Irish by English society. " ... the medieval romance and its heroic knights. A parody is an imitation of other literature transferred into a humorous spectrum aimed to ridicule the literary style from which it was derived. This particular form of a satire (a parody) is to take the characteristics of someone or...

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... how they learn. A growing volume of research is also available which recommends reader response approaches and introduces cognitive teaching strategies, techniques, and activities that promote creative, active, collaborative learning in literature classroom in order to make literary study life-relevant and personally meaningful to students. In this regard Showalter (2004), Egan (2005) and Moore (2002) ... understanding of the world outside their classroom. These approaches being teacher centered view literature as a species of knowledge. Teachers take it as their responsibility to impart...

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... theater and painting as well as film-during the 1920's, just as during the same period, Formalism marked the burgeoning cultural life-both literary and cinematic-in the Soviet Union. Essentially the difference between the two movements depends on a slight but significant shift of focus. Expressionism is ... Soviet filmmaker-theorists not only wanted to capture reality but also to change it - and found the powerful tool of montage, close ups and editing techniques to multiply visual impact. Films by Sergei Eisenstein (Strike, 1924; Potemkin, 1925; October, 1927), V.I. Pudovkin (Mother, 1...

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... of Cervantes, Alighieri, Rabelais and Moliere. The use of the various styles and conventions shows that, despite the passage of centuries and the language differences, certain writing techniques will always be effective. One common literary technique is the author's use of one or more of his characters as a "voice- to speak out his views on a certain subject. In Candide, Voltaire makes use ... Voltaire uses in Candide is that of taking actual people and events and weaving into his work of fiction. He often does this to mock or ridicule his political and literary adversaries, as shown in...

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Many literary techniques are used to emphasize the theme of the Shakespearean play "King Lear." The dramas' theme is blindness, both mentally and physically, to the truth. In King Lear, the techniques of imagery, foreshadowing, and irony help to reinforce the drama's theme that people are blind to the truth. Imagery is used frequently and helps to create a vivid image for the ... kingdom. The storm is my master now." This quote demonstrates foreshadowing because the way Lear is babbling, and talking about the storm, can mean that he is going crazy. A third literary technique, irony, undersco...

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Satiric Techniques of Gulliver's Travels Gulliver's Travels has adopted the reputation of a humorous and critical satire. A satire acts as a literary piece of work that diminishes the subject to a point of ridicule and amusement to the reader. It uses comic ... relief to ease its content and can act as an aid to human folly and vice. Jonathan Swift, the author of this book, used many satiric techniques to tell this story ... publication of this very controversial work, many loved is as either a biting satire or a comical adventure. As Gulliver travels to four different lands, the satiric tec...

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"The Whipping," a poem by Robert Hayden, is about a young boy being abused by an older woman. Furthermore, the narrator of the poem is a nearby neighbor who is witnessing the action. While watching the violence unfold before his or her eyes, the neighbor relays his or her own personal memories of being a victim of abuse. Considering the poem's outline summary, the theme of "The Whipping" does deal with abuse, pain, and suffering. The text communicates this theme by using many devices, such as imagery, tone, alliteration, and consonance. The most obvious literary device in the poem uses is imag...

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... our minimal knowledge of the Russians" dealings with the virus we know that it poses a significant threat to us today. Richard Preston does an excellent job of employing a variety of literary techniques to explain the horrors and workings of the smallpox virus by taking us on a journey through various incidents throughout the history of the virus. He also explains how the virus ... in the world and backs his view with facts and figures. He also runs down the fact that the virus may very well be in the wrong hands. Preston's next literary technique is to introduce the acclaimed team that...

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In The Screwtape Letters, a novel by noted religion and theology author C.S. Lewis, one observes the letters written from a demon named Screwtape to his young, inexperienced nephew named Wormwood. These letters contain Screwtape's advice and criticism on how to be a better "tempter,"" as they are referred to in the novel (Lewis 160). The idea behind Lewis' unique setting for the work is to illustrate his belief in the eventual demise of Satan and his followers, and that God will be victorious in the end. He creates a simple, yet striking, setting for his story through the use of his own specia...

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To His Coy Mistress- by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). Analysis of figures of Speech and Poetic Devices. To begin, the title of the poem suggests that it is written by a man to his coy (shy) mistress. The poem is a metaphysical poem expressed in a romantic form, so it could be easily categorized as a love poem. The title addresses who the poem is from and who it is being addressed to. It has connotations of lust with the word "mistress." The theme of "To His Coy Mistress" is sexual desires not shared by both individuals and the man's proposal to love. In essence, the mistress is unresponsive t...

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Kailynn Sisco 7th period 4-21-15 The Comparison During the roaring twenties social class was an important aspect of society. Usually no lower class citizens would socialize with upper class citizens. In other word "by no means would anyone from a lower class be caught in an uptown setting" (Doughty). All different classes were for the most part separated by where people lived. There is a variety of characters in the novel The Great Gatsby that comes from different economic acquirements. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses these different economic backgrounds to create 'cities' to display these di...

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Author Zora Neale Hurston's storytelling techniques convey the townspeople's disapproval of Janie's choices about the men in her life, and the empowerment that the security of the night brings them to openly judge Janie. The reader understands the judgement Janie faces throughout the novel because of trying to make choices that will make her happy, and the intricate relationship between a Janie and her environment because of her lighter skin tone, as well as the fundamental differences that exist between women and men in the novel. The imagery in this passage helps to convey the the disapprova...

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Flannery O"Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" emphasizes narrative techniques to bring to life the story of a family from Georgia traveling on vacation to Florida. Her uses of omniscience point of view, foreshadowing, and irony truly make "A Good Man is Hard to Find" a intriguing story. From the beginning O"Connor lets us know whose story this is in the first two lines, "The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennesse and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind." This alone sets the tone of the story. It lets the rea...

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... in the short poem "First Lesson" and the short story "Charles" are very different. Some of the literary techniques that were used were irony, characterization. Although the literary techniques are different the themes are strikingly similar. The theme of the story and the poem is, parents worrying about their children. The theme also expresses that parents tend to have ... romantic terrors", this quote is using personification. It is stating that fathers embody the things that it lists and it says that for all of them. All in all, the literary techniques employed in First Lesson do not...

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... authors uses and its effectiveness upon instilling the development of readers' fear. Through the research and evaluation of the two novels it is clearly expressed how authors' literary elements as well as techniques have a large influence in the development of fear in the horror and thriller genres 294 words. Introduction Horror and thrillers have always been one of readers' favorite ... elements are perfectly illustrated through the two famous works: Perfume: The Story of a Murder by Patrick Suskind and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Both Suskind and Stoker employ various literary devices and ...

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... 27, 1929 " May 18, 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic and editor. His short literary work "The Moon in Its Flight,"" may be defined as a self-reflexive fictional work, in which two parallel stories are narrated through the use of peculiar techniques and devices: one story tells the summer romance between Rebecca and a young boy, who are ... work an author writes (this process is called 'outer narrative'") about a narrator who is telling a story ("inner narrative"). This is precisely known as "self-reflexive fiction"," in which the very techniques o...

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... poem as he reflected on the very significant event of the death of the Hollywood sex icon, Marilyn Monroe. Morgan's skilled use of literary techniques conveyed to me the significance of Monroe's death. The dramatic and thrilling opening line of the poem represents how the public and the world ... person's life. This idea of innocence is continued in the line: " white hearse-, which is normally associated with the death of a child. These literary techniques play an important role in conveying the significance of the death of Marilyn Monroe to the reader. The description I would give the f...

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... author's attitude is quite obvious. Authors can also control the view the reader has on characters using word choice and literary techniques. In Miss Brill, a short story by Katherine Mansfield, the reader can identify Mansfield's view on Miss Brill through the literary techniques the author uses; narrative intrusion, subtlety, and limited omniscience. Narrative intrusion is the first technique used by Mansfield. An ... many different ways to show the author's feelings in novels. By using techniques such as narrative intrusion, limited omniscience and subtlety, Mansfield can manipulate ...

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... – I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face" There are many noticeable literary techniques in Lolita but one main technique in the structure of the book would be symbolism. The study of butterflies and moths appear throughout the novel, ... symbolised by butterflies. The technique of 'the power of language' can also be seen evidently in The Collector. While Nabokov uses techniques of puns, literary allusions, and repeating linguistic patterns, Fowles seems to use a lot of metaphors throughout the novel. Metaphors are evident when Frederick d...

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